Exporting Stereo from FCP

Hi all,
I'm currently struggling with the output of a music video for broadcast. I am ultimately looking to create an MPEG IMX PAL quicktime.
I am running FCP 7.0.2.
The problem I am having is that every time I output from FCP my stereo sound (which I can see has very slightly different waveforms on each channel) is being turned into two mono channels.
My export settings are always stereo in the quicktime dialogue box and I have also tried the sequence being set to "channel grouped" and "stereo downmix" before export with no joy. I have also made sure that "downmix" is not selected in the audio mixer.
This is slightly frustrating as I've never had this problem before and I'm hoing it's something simple I'm overlooking.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Alex

Thanks David, that seems to be what the problem was. I thought it might be something simple I was over looking.
Just to check for the future, does this always have to be the case for a track to be exported as stereo from FCP and there is no way of overriding it in the export?
I'm guessing that it is, but for my sanity I thought I'd best check.
Thanks for your help
Alex

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